# pressure
## English
### Etymology

From Latin pressūra.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: prĕshʹ-ə(r), IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
** (UK) IPA: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ə(ɹ)]
** (US) IPA: [ˈpɹɛʃ.ɚ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: pres‧sure

### Noun

pressure (countable and uncountable, plural pressures)
* A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
    Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
* A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
    the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.
** 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:When the pressure of danger was not felt.
** 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Disrupt Enemy Supplies:Hostile forces are putting pressure on our people. Take out their supply line to give our troops room to breathe.
* Distress.
    She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
** 1649, Eikon Basilike:My people's pressures are grievous.
** October 31, 1708, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the Queen at St. James's
    In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.
** 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 49:Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.
* Urgency
    the pressure of business
* (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
* (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.

#### Synonyms

* (distress): affliction, grievance
* (urgency): press

#### Derived terms

* absolute pressure
* acupressure
* air pressure
* ambient pressure
* atmospheric pressure
* backpressure
* barometric pressure
* blood pressure
* brake mean effective pressure
* bursting pressure
* counterpressure
* depressure
* diastolic blood pressure
* dynamic pressure
* electric pressure
* equilibrium vapor pressure
* gage pressure
* gauge pressure
* geopressure
* high blood pressure
* high-pressure
* high-pressure liquid chromatography
* hunting pressure
* hydropressure
* hydrostatic pressure
* hydrostatic pressure relief system
* I have high blood pressure
* I have low blood pressure
* intracranial pressure
* intraocular pressure
* jugular venous pressure
* low-pressure
* mean sea level pressure
* mutation pressure
* negative pressure
* no pressure
* osmotic pressure
* overpressure
* partial pressure
* peer pressure
* Planck pressure
* pore water pressure
* positive airway pressure
* pressure altimeter
* pressure altitude
* pressure angle
* pressure area
* pressure atrophy
* pressure bag
* pressure bandage
* pressure bar
* pressure block
* pressure bomb
* pressure cabin
* pressure cable
* pressure canner
* pressure casting
* pressure cell
* pressure centre
* pressure chamber
* pressure coefficient
* pressure contour
* pressure-cooker
* pressure cooker
* pressure cuff
* pressure decline
* pressure deflection
* pressure depth
* pressure distillate
* pressure distribution
* pressure effect
* pressure element
* pressure epiphysis
* pressure fan
* pressure field
* pressure flaking
* pressure flip
* pressure force
* pressure gauge
* pressure gradient
* pressure gradient force
* pressure group
* pressure head
* pressure hull
* pressure hydrophone
* pressure ice
* pressure injury
* pressure interface
* pressure ionization
* pressure jump
* pressureless
* pressure line
* pressure maintenance
* pressure makes diamonds
* pressure mark
* pressure melting
* pressuremeter
* pressure microphone
* pressure mine
* pressure naphtha
* pressure of speech
* pressure pad
* pressure paralysis
* pressure pattern
* pressure penitente
* pressure pickup
* pressure pillow
* pressure pipe
* pressure plate
* pressure point
* pressure radius
* pressure rating
* pressure regulator
* pressure-retarded osmosis
* pressure retarded osmosis
* pressure ridge
* pressure ring
* pressure roll
* pressure seal
* pressure sense
* pressure sensibility
* pressure-sensitive
* pressure solution
* pressure sore
* pressure suit
* pressure survey
* pressure switch
* pressure tank
* pressure tap
* pressure tendency
* pressure tube
* pressure tunnel
* pressure ulcer
* pressure valve
* pressure vector
* pressure vessel
* pressure viscosity
* pressure volume diagram
* pressure wash
* pressure-wash
* pressure-washer
* pressure washer
* pressure wave
* pressure welding
* pressure wire
* pressure zone
* pressurize
* pulse pressure
* radiation pressure
* relative pressure
* repressure
* root pressure
* saturated vapor pressure
* saturation vapor pressure
* saturation vapour pressure
* sleep pressure
* standard temperature and pressure
* systolic blood pressure
* time pressure
* tire-pressure
* tire-pressure gauge
* tyre-pressure
* tyre-pressure gauge
* underpressure
* under pressure
* vapor pressure
* vapour pressure
* water pressure
* water vapor pressure
* white coat high blood pressure
* working pressure

#### Translations

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### Verb

pressure (third-person singular simple present pressures, present participle pressuring, simple past and past participle pressured)
* (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
    Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

#### Translations
### See also

* (units of pressure): pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in$^2$, lb/in$^2$), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)

### Anagrams

* Preusser, perusers

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: pressurent, pressures

### Verb

pressure
* inflection of pressurer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Participle

pressūre
* vocative masculine singular of pressūrus

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pressūra.

### Noun

pressure oblique singular, f (oblique plural pressures, nominative singular pressure, nominative plural pressures)
* pressure (action or result of pressing)

#### Descendants

* → English: pressure